2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

Mormons don't drink coffee you sillies

i can't vote for someone who refuses to do the dew

The former gov’s campaign posted a list of “what Mitt listens to on the road” through Spotify on Facebook on Friday. Here’s the 19 song playlist:

“I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” by The Soggy Bottom Boys

in this context this reads like "I am a human being capable of frequent emotion"

The first of these struck me as, I don't know, a little over-earnest; when I read the second one, I figured the whole thing was a rather inspired put-on. They're both real.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293106/romney-wins-guam-caucuses-brian-bolduc
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293111/romney-wins-northern-mariana-islands-brian-bolduc

Why do I get the feeling that Romney parachuted into Guam mid-week and dropped 20 million on attack ads? ("Rick Santorum is wrong for Guam...")

I love this, from the comments section:

And the Romney machine marches on!

"We're going to Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands and Samoa and Puerto Rico, then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House! YEAAAAAAAAAHHH!"

few days old, good piece tho http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/03/super-tuesday-four-republican-candidates.html

wow nro just wholesale ripped off huffposts design when did that happen

talk abt something not to be emulated

Santorum wins in Kansas

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-10/rick-santorum-wins-kansas-caucus-as-romney-wins-weekend-s-other-contests.html

Wonder if Romney is going to hurt himself with his post-nomination pivot. I mean physically. Like from the whiplash.

SANTORUMOMENTUM

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7185/6970712445_8ac8c9ab08_b.jpg

intersting http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/in-g-o-p-nomination-race-geography-has-been-destiny

ok, can someone who tell me who this woman is and why she keeps doing that

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his wife, right?

no, that's his daughter. right? wife is the one on the right in the last photo.

http://themoderatevoice.com/wordpress-engine/files//2012/01/08santorum.jpg

never forget

Kansas gets it right. The big question now is, what's the matter with Guam?

snakes iirc

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uY-lvtRlf_I/Sk0dZP4HqzI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/guNtyW8-O9s/s400/indiana_jones_snakes.jpg

l-r: santorum, guam

treasured ilx meme grows up in her meme-face, amazing.

I think the daughter in question is the one in the background of the famous ilx meme-pic., where she is indeed still making the same face as she does today, but a tad bit happier now than then.

yep

Heartfelt; moving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hfvRaOnbQ0

he seems really unwell.

like, he might die soon.

He looks like he is dying.

"A vote for Romney is a vote for my healthcare...wait."

that's a bold pattern on his shirt

ha that was my first and only thought

it makes an impression

is he wearing a cheesecloth

The Republicans’ war on TelePrompters is an example of why many in the party are wary about the GOP nomination fight extending all the way through June. Attacking TelePrompters might be a winning strategy (or at least part of one) in a Republican primary race but’s it hard to imagine any swing voters this November being persuaded by that line of attack.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/republicans-war-on-the-teleprompter--and-its-limits/2012/03/12/gIQAjuMV7R_blog.html?hpid=z2

the whole teleprompter meme is so hilarious and lame

but I thought the GOP loved Reagan!

Does that mean they want cue cards instead? Or a speech to be memorised? I just don't get it. If politics is to progress in helping the people, we need more Rick Perry moments but during important speeches, god dammit!?

I am declaring war on... oh shit... one of those countries. I forgot which one. If only we invented some sort of way for me to read the speech instead of just trying to remember. The country we are going to invade is... well it starts with an I. Israel? Fuck it, that sounds foreign enough. I am declaring war on Israel.

I've posted this before, but: could've used a teleprompter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WEdrdoz8Z4

(Still love when he momentarily turns into the Penguin at the 19-second mark.)

My impression of the teleprompter rumpus is that it's a specific dig at Obama ("He ain't so smart - he just reads his speeches off a teleprompter.")

Because, for Republican base voters, it epitomizes everything they dislike about President Obama. It reveals that “he’s all show,” explained Curt Anderson, a Republican media consultant who did work for Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential bid but is now unaffiliated in the race. “All hat, no cattle.”

Added Rob Stutzman, a California-based Republican consultant: “Obama took the TelePrompter to a new level of absurdity when he reached the White House. It seemed he couldn’t even greet a little league team without the Prompter in place.”

In short: The use of a Prompter gets at authenticity, which should be the watch word for all politicians in the coming election. These days voters tend to believe that all politicians are telling them what they want to hear. For Republicans, Obama’s use of the TelePrompter is the height of inauthenticity — reading words written for him by someone else from an electronic device.

looooooool

Speaking of Perry, this is great--less for the fantasy that naming someone in advance will help Gingrich, more for the someone he settles on:

http://www.salon.com/2012/03/12/ah_the_old_v_p_trick/

("Preliminary 'what-if' conversation" deserves its own acronym. "Romney and Santorum engage in secret PWICs over potential non-existence of Easter Bunny.")

Everything about the GOP makes me think of George Clooney in Out of Sight: "This is the dumbest fuckin' shakedown in the history of dumb shakedowns."

How could we all be so callous? Happy 65th, Mitt! (At home, with the trees.)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/shakespeares_sister/shakes4/1-23-12-Mitt-Romney_full_600.jpg

pretty surprised that Silver has Romney ahead of Santorum in MS and AL. Gingrich, too, but that's a little less surprising.

those aren't his trees!!

Although Mitt reserves a special place in his heart for the trees of Michigan, he has promised to restore all of America's trees to the greatness they once enjoyed before President Obama declared his War on Trees four years ago.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oyZ-qVSfGLc/SWvUTrAjSII/AAAAAAAABTg/uF6mKOjyvRs/S220/Flo.jpg

Reportedly making robocalls for Romney in the south.

"Kiss my Mitt!"

anyone making those teleprompter jokes should be forced to watch obama answering questions at the republican congressional conference